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wladdy · 07-16-2015, 04:58 PM

I wrote a script in Unix to add empty books to Calibre and then populate their metadata based on what's listed in a separate text file. Now, while the books that I create using 'calibredb set_metadata' have proper 'title' and the 'authors' fields, their 'title sort' and 'author sort' are set to 'Unknown'.

My question:
is there a CLI way to automatically update 'title sort' and 'author sort' based on the existing 'title' and 'authors'?

Thanks in advance! W.

07-16-2015, 04:58 PM	#1
wladdy Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: iPad / Kindle DX	Update 'title sort' and 'author sort' through CLI I wrote a script in Unix to add empty books to Calibre and then populate their metadata based on what's listed in a separate text file. Now, while the books that I create using 'calibredb set_metadata' have proper 'title' and the 'authors' fields, their 'title sort' and 'author sort' are set to 'Unknown'. My question: is there a CLI way to automatically update 'title sort' and 'author sort' based on the existing 'title' and 'authors'? Thanks in advance! W.